The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-22
General and miscellaneous.

The Cherokee 8 Dakota railroad has been in
corporated in the State Of lowe. with capital
road southwesterly and northwsstcrly from
Cherokee, Ia, through Iowa and into Nebrask a,
Minnesota and Dakota.
The prices OF some commodities are proba.
bly, less satisfactory to the producer than year
ago, but as measured by railroad earnings. ex-
port movement of products and merchandise,
and the best individual testimony, the volume
of business is considerably larger
The Eighty-ninth Illinois regiment, known as
the RAILROAD Regiment" held a reunion in Chi
csgo on Tuesday. and the surviving heroes of
this famous regiment had grand time This
regiment was formed Aug. 81 1864 having been
organized uhder the auspices Of the several roads
then centerinC in Chicago.
Southern roads seen, to be doing we'll this
year. The monthly statement of the railroad
commissioners of South Carolina. just pub.
lished, shows that of twenty one roads in that
State seventeen show an increase of S34. no in
net earnings, and but four roads O decrease. as
compared with their statements for August, 1886.
Mr.. Nicholson, private secretary to Presiien
King. of the Erie railroad. said yesterday, in
reference to the printed statement that Presi-
dent King had been offered or was seeking the
Presidency of the Baltimore 81 Ohio Railroad.
that it was utterly false and without foupda-
ticn. President King has not been offered the
position nor has he been to Baltimore for the
purpose of securing it-N. Y. World.
Since May Is, when the first carload of Cali
foruia fruit was shipped East a total of Ia 600 i.
600 pounds of green fruit has been sent to East
ern markets from Sacramento. CAL To trans
port this vast product of the orchards of the
great Sacramento Valley has required fully TOO
cars loaded to their full capacity. At $500 car,
the freight paid, these Sacramento Shipments
would aggregate the enormous sum of $3.50, 600,
and the season is By no means over yet.
Tho A. T. q s. r., Chicago extension, is to be
completed by New years. For q few weeks only
freight trains will be run, giving the roadbed IN
opportunity to settle into rst-class condition be-
fore passenger service is prt The new liz e
is not only fifty miles shorter than any other TO
Kansas City, but has the advantage of almost
entire absence OF grade crossing. Iii claim ed
that the express trains on the new line will run
from Chicago to Kansas City in twelve honrs.
as against twenty hours now. the shortest sched-
ule.
A Springfield. Ill, special says e. f. Leonard,
of the Toledo. Peoria s. Western has filed with
the State Railroad and Warehouse Commission
an official report OF the Chatsworth accident.
The document says nothing of the circurn-
stances under which the train was wrecked. nor
does it attempt to locate the responsibility for
the wreck. The report estimates from the num-
Der of tickets sold that there we're $40 persons
on the train, of whom eighty are now dead
The number injured is given rs Isl. ten Of
whom employees of tho road. Niue en-
ployes and 102 passengers have recovered from
their injuries, and thirty-niue are still under
the care o. physicians. Three or four cot
free from danger OF fatal results.